• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
SRI logo
  • About
    • Press room
    • Our history
  • Expertise
    • Advanced imaging systems
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Biomedical R&D services
    • Biomedical sciences
    • Computer vision
    • Cyber & formal methods
    • Education and learning
    • Innovation strategy and policy
    • National security
    • Ocean & space
    • Quantum
    • Robotics, sensors & devices
    • Speech & natural language
    • Video test & measurement
  • Ventures
  • NSIC
  • Careers
  • Contact
  • 日本支社
Search
Close
Blog archive August 13, 2014

Best Practices for Recruiting Schools for Educational Studies

In a recent report, “Recruiting Participants for Large-Scale Random Assignment Experiments in School Settings,” a team of SRI Education researchers share practical advice on how to recruit schools for educational studies.

There is an art to successful recruitment, but there are few occasions for experienced researchers to share lessons learned about recruitment with colleagues. The report synthesizes the SRI researchers experiences conducting more than 20 random assignment experiments to help other researchers get a head start. Recruitment is a key challenge for researchers conducting any large school-based study. Further, random assignment studies are challenging because the process requires schools to agree to unfamiliar processes for longer periods of time.

We suggest thinking about recruitment as six sequential phases:

  1. Study Design
  2. Intervention Packaging
  3. Planning a Recruitment Process
  4. Designing Recruitment Messages
  5. Running a Recruitment Campaign
  6. After Recruitment

The report discusses typical issues and problems that can occur within each phase and illustrates a range of useful strategies and responses with examples from relevant SRI Education projects. A one-page summary provides recommendations for running a successful recruitment effort.

With the release of this report, SRI Education hopes to stimulate a broader conversation about recruitment techniques in the research community, leading to more efficient and successful studies.

The free report is available here.

SRI will give presentations based on the report at the upcoming Institute of Education Sciences Principal Investigators meeting on September 3 and the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness Conference on September 4. Both meetings will be held in Washington DC.

Keep up to date with the Center for Technology in Learning’s latest research findings—sign up for the CTL Newsletter.

Share this
Career call to action image

Work with us

Search jobs

How can we help?

Once you hit send…

We’ll match your inquiry to the person who can best help you.

Expect a response within 48 hours.

Our work

Case studies

Publications

Timeline of innovation

Areas of expertise

Institute

Leadership

Press room

Media inquiries

Compliance

Careers

Job listings

Contact

SRI Ventures

Our locations

Headquarters

333 Ravenswood Ave
Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA

+1 (650) 859-2000

Subscribe to our newsletter


日本支社
SRI International
  • Contact us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookies
  • DMCA
  • Copyright © 2023 SRI International
Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}